Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.2 Installation Guide - AIX

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.2)
Platform: AIX
  1. Section I. Planning and preparation
    1. Introducing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      2.  
        Components of the Veritas InfoScale product suite
      3.  
        About the co-existence of Veritas InfoScale products
    2. Licensing Veritas InfoScale
      1.  
        About Veritas InfoScale product licensing
      2.  
        About telemetry data collection in InfoScale
      3.  
        Licensing notes
      4.  
        Registering Veritas InfoScale using permanent license key file
      5.  
        Registering Veritas InfoScale using keyless license
      6. Managing InfoScale licenses
        1.  
          About the vxlicinstupgrade utility
      7.  
        Generating license report with vxlicrep command
    3. System requirements
      1.  
        Important release information
      2.  
        Disk space requirements
      3. Hardware requirements
        1.  
          SF and SFHA hardware requirements
        2.  
          SFCFS and SFCFSHA hardware requirements
        3.  
          SF Oracle RAC hardware requirements
        4.  
          VCS hardware requirements
        5.  
          Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) requirements
      4.  
        Supported operating systems and database versions
      5.  
        Number of nodes supported
    4. Preparing to install
      1.  
        Mounting the ISO image
      2.  
        Setting up ssh or rsh for inter-system communications
      3.  
        Obtaining installer patches
      4.  
        Disabling external network connection attempts
      5.  
        Verifying the systems before installation
      6. Setting up the private network
        1.  
          Optimizing LLT media speed settings on private NICs
        2.  
          Guidelines for setting the media speed for LLT interconnects
        3.  
          Guidelines for setting the maximum transmission unit (MTU) for LLT interconnects in Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) environments
      7. Setting up shared storage
        1.  
          Setting the SCSI identifier value
        2.  
          Setting up Fibre Channel
      8.  
        Synchronizing time settings on cluster nodes
      9.  
        Configuring LLT interconnects to use Jumbo Frames
      10. Planning the installation setup for SF Oracle RAC systems
        1. Planning your network configuration
          1.  
            Planning the public network configuration for Oracle RAC
          2. Planning the private network configuration for Oracle RAC
            1.  
              High availability solutions for Oracle RAC private network
          3.  
            Planning the public network configuration for Oracle RAC
          4.  
            Planning the private network configuration for Oracle RAC
        2. Planning the storage
          1.  
            Planning the storage
          2. Planning the storage for Oracle RAC
            1. Planning the storage for OCR and voting disk
              1.  
                OCR and voting disk storage configuration for external redundancy
              2.  
                OCR and voting disk storage configuration for normal redundancy
            2.  
              Planning the storage for Oracle RAC binaries and data files
            3.  
              Planning for Oracle RAC ASM over CVM
        3.  
          Planning volume layout
        4.  
          Planning file system design
        5.  
          Setting the umask before installation
      11.  
        Updating the SCSI reserve ODM attribute settings for VIOS
  2. Section II. Installation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
      1.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using the installer
    2. Installing Veritas InfoScale using response files
      1. About response files
        1.  
          Syntax in the response file
      2.  
        Installing Veritas InfoScale using response files
      3.  
        Response file variables to install Veritas InfoScale
      4.  
        Sample response files for Veritas InfoScale installation
    3. Installing Veritas Infoscale using operating system-specific methods
      1.  
        About installing Veritas InfoScale using operating system-specific methods
      2. Installing Veritas InfoScale using NIM and the installer
        1.  
          Preparing the installation bundle on the NIM server
        2.  
          Installing Veritas InfoScale on the NIM client using SMIT on the NIM server
        3.  
          Installing Veritas InfoScale and the operating system on the NIM client using SMIT
    4. Completing the post installation tasks
      1.  
        Verifying product installation
      2.  
        Setting environment variables
      3.  
        Managing the Veritas telemetry collector on your server
      4.  
        Next steps after installation
  3. Section III. Uninstallation of Veritas InfoScale
    1. Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using the installer
      1. Preparing to uninstall a Veritas InfoScale product
        1.  
          Moving volumes to physical disks
      2.  
        Removing the Replicated Data Set
      3.  
        Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale filesets using the installer
      4.  
        Removing Storage Foundation products using SMIT
      5.  
        Removing the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository
    2. Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using response files
      1.  
        Uninstalling Veritas InfoScale using response files
      2.  
        Response file variables to uninstall Veritas InfoScale
      3.  
        Sample response file for Veritas InfoScale uninstallation
  4. Section IV. Installation reference
    1. Appendix A. Installation scripts
      1.  
        Installation script options
    2. Appendix B. Tunable files for installation
      1.  
        About setting tunable parameters using the installer or a response file
      2.  
        Setting tunables for an installation, configuration, or upgrade
      3.  
        Setting tunables with no other installer-related operations
      4.  
        Setting tunables with an un-integrated response file
      5.  
        Preparing the tunables file
      6.  
        Setting parameters for the tunables file
      7.  
        Tunables value parameter definitions
    3. Appendix C. Troubleshooting installation issues
      1.  
        Restarting the installer after a failed network connection
      2.  
        Troubleshooting an installation on AIX
      3.  
        Incorrect permissions for root on remote system
      4.  
        Resource temporarily unavailable
      5.  
        Inaccessible system

Response file variables to install Veritas InfoScale

Table: Response file variables for installing Veritas InfoScale lists the response file variables that you can define to install Veritas InfoScale.

Table: Response file variables for installing Veritas InfoScale

Variable

Description

CFG{opt}{install}

Installs Veritas InfoScale filesets. Configuration can be performed at a later time using the -configure option.

List or scalar: scalar

Optional or required: optional

CFG{activecomponent}

Specifies the component for operations like precheck, configure, addnode, install and configure(together).

List or scalar: list

Optional or required: required

CFG{accepteula}

Specifies whether you agree with the EULA.pdf file on the media.

List or scalar: scalar

Optional or required: required

CFG{keys}{vxkeyless}

CFG{keys}{licensefile}

CFG{keys}{vxkeyless} gives the keyless key to be registered on the system.

CFG{keys}{licensefile} gives the absolute file path to the permanent license key to be registered on the system.

List of Scalar: List

Optional or required: Required.

CFG{systems}

List of systems on which the product is to be installed or uninstalled.

List or scalar: list

Optional or required: required

CFG{prod}

Defines the product to be installed or uninstalled.

List or scalar: scalar

Optional or required: required

CFG{opt}{keyfile}

Defines the location of an ssh keyfile that is used to communicate with all remote systems.

List or scalar: scalar

Optional or required: optional

CFG{opt}{tmppath}

Defines the location where a working directory is created to store temporary files and the filesets that are needed during the install. The default location is /opt/VRTStmp.

List or scalar: scalar

Optional or required: optional

CFG{opt}{rsh}

Defines that rsh must be used instead of ssh as the communication method between systems.

List or scalar: scalar

Optional or required: optional

CFG{opt}{logpath}

Mentions the location where the log files are to be copied. The default location is /opt/VRTS/install/logs.

List or scalar: scalar

Optional or required: optional

$CFG{edgeserver_host}

Use this parameter to configure the edge server.

Enter telemetry.veritas.com to use the Veritas Cloud Receiver, which is a preconfigured, cloud-based edge server deployed by Veritas.

Optional or required: required

Note:

An edge server is used to collect licensing and platform related information from InfoScale products as part of the Veritas Product Improvement Program. The information collected helps identify how customers deploy and use the product, and enables Veritas to manage customer licenses more efficiently.

$CFG{edgeserver_port}

Use this parameter to configure the port number of the edge server.

Enter 443, which is the port number used by the Veritas Cloud Receiver.

Optional or required: required

Note:

An edge server is used to collect licensing and platform related information from InfoScale products as part of the Veritas Product Improvement Program. The information collected helps identify how customers deploy and use the product, and enables Veritas to manage customer licenses more efficiently.